I don't know if the Serenity idea is too far out. First take the idea that FTL is impossible. Flat out not going to happen.
But humanity wants more living space anyway, so terraforming becomes the thing. Nano-tech, bio-tech, and other technologies make terraforming possible in reasonable timeframes. So for worlds in our star system, we could have Venus, Earth, Mars, many asteroid mining colonies, several moons of Jupiter, several moons of Saturn. Out past Saturn there probably isn't enough solar energy, and Mercury is probably too hot, but that still gives us about 10 possibly habitable planets. The Serenity/Firefly sci-fi is based on the idea that humans flew STL to another star system and terraformed everything there. Right? I believe its a reasonable sci-fi idea. On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 19:50 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My understanding (bear in mind that I'm no sort of insider) is that many > > players found vehicle design (even in its simplified form, e.g. Space > > 3e) too complex and irrelevant to their needs. Therefore vehicle design > > will be covered in a separate book (available only as PDF to start > > with), which recently completed playtest. There will separately be > > vehicle catalogue books for specific campaign settings or groups of > > settings. > > Thanks, dude. I'm bummed. In the meantime, all that effort I put in this > past weekend making my own ship design system (loosely base on ST:TNG, my > first true love) has not gone to waste. One issue I am already butting heads > with is power vs. warp thrust. In ST, the WTF unit is the cochrane, and each > warp factor requires not quite a geometric increase in cochranes, but which > is linear with respect to velocity. No problem so far, except that starships > basically improve from Warp 5 (ST:Enterprise) to Warp 7 (ST:TOS) to Warp 9.6 > (TNG), which is a tenfold improvement in velocity! Then, ST:TNG Technical > Manual also cites the increase in energy/cochrane required at higher warps. > So we have an additive problem, in which power requirements increase 6 orders > of magnitude over that same technological advancement. This in a setting > where likely power requirements for other things is more linear... > > > > >Also, anyone get the sense from the FIREFLY show (I must have missed it)-- > > >is > > there a FTL drive? If so, what is it? Warp, Jump, what? > > > > In the show it's not discussed. In the film it's apparently made clear > > that all the action is supposed to be happening in a single stellar > > system. > > > Whoa. That's a huge star system. That makes no sense. Oh, well. My > Interstellar Wars merchant ship was only loosely based on that... > > -vk > > _______________________________________________ > > GurpsNet-L mailing list > > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
